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Link: The New Legalism: Missional, Radical, Narcissistic, and Shamed | Acton PowerBlog
This article provides an excellent balance to the post I just wrote. 🙂 I didn’t write it, but you should definitely read it. Because I don’t need to rewrite someone else’s excellent post: …[M]issional, radical Christianity could easily be called “the new legalism.” A few decades ago, an entire generation of Baby Boomers walked away…
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Denominational Distinctives should not overshadow the Gospel
More than a decade ago, Coart & I found ourselves emerging from a narrow, insular, and separatist Christianity into the light of biblical teaching about how believers relate to one another and to Grace. It was scary, to be sure — leaving the world of Fundamentalism that I was raised in and both of us…
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How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently | Brain Pickings
How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently | Brain Pickings. A brief overview of Daniel Dennett’s approach to offering critique. Can we make this a mandatory required reading selection for all politicians? lol
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Possibly the best thing ever: Spurious Correlations
Spurious Correlations. Possibly the best thing ever.
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‘There’s Nothing Liberal About Specializing in Philosophy’ – Nick Romeo – The Atlantic
It’s not the discipline that makes it part of liberal education, it’s the way you approach it. A liberal arts school is not about having lots of classics professors and no economics professors. It’s about teaching the subject in such a way that it broadens students’ perspectives rather than closing them down into specialization. At…
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